Book description
The first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino-and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his careerThe director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in…
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The rise and fall, life and death, of notorious Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate auteur Michael Cimino were as dramatic as any of his films – and with agent, producer and novelist on his resume, Charles Elton is extremely well qualified to tell his story of art, commerce and ambition.
There’s something of Citizen Kane about this book, its subject ending up alone in his mansion in the Hollywood hills surrounded by the manuscripts of unrealised projects; but there’s no equivalent of Charles Foster Kane’s “Rosebud”, the childhood key which could unlock the adult personality. “I am not who I…
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